#include <stdio.h>
#include <chrono>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <functional>

void measure(const std::string& test, std::function<void()> function)
{
    auto start_time = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();

    function();

    auto duration = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::nanoseconds>(std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now() - start_time);
    std::cout<<test<<" "<<static_cast<double>(duration.count()) * 0.000001<<" ms"<<std::endl;
}

#define BUFFER_SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 1024)

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    auto buffer = new char[BUFFER_SIZE];
    memset(buffer, 123, BUFFER_SIZE);

    measure("FILE* write", [buffer]()
    {
        FILE* file = fopen("test_file_write", "wb");
        fwrite(buffer, 1, BUFFER_SIZE, file);
        fclose(file);
    });
    measure("FILE* read", [buffer]()
    {
        FILE* file = fopen("test_file_read", "rb");
        fread(buffer, 1, BUFFER_SIZE, file);
        fclose(file);
    });
    measure("fstream write", [buffer]()
    {
        std::ofstream stream("test_stream_write", std::ios::binary);
        stream.write(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
    });
    measure("fstream read", [buffer]()
    {
        std::ifstream stream("test_stream_read", std::ios::binary);
        stream.read(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
    });

    delete[] buffer;
}

FILE* write 1388.59 ms
FILE* read 1292.51 ms
fstream write 3105.38 ms
fstream read 3319.82 ms

$ clang++  main.cpp -std=c++11 -stdlib=libc++ -O3
$ ./a.out
FILE* write 1417.9 ms
FILE* read 1292.59 ms
fstream write 3214.02 ms
fstream read 3052.56 ms

$ ./a.out
FILE* write 1428.98 ms
FILE* read 196.902 ms
fstream write 3343.69 ms
fstream read 2285.93 ms

FILE* file = fopen("test_file_write", "wb");
fwrite(buffer, 1, BUFFER_SIZE, file);
fclose(file);

std::ofstream stream("test_stream_write", std::ios::binary);
stream.write(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);

Running    Time     Self       Symbol Name
3266.0ms   66.9%    0,0        std::__1::basic_ostream<char, std::__1::char_traits<char> >::write(char const*, long)
3265.0ms   66.9%    2145,0          std::__1::basic_streambuf<char, std::__1::char_traits<char> >::xsputn(char const*, long)
1120.0ms   22.9%    7,0                 std::__1::basic_filebuf<char, std::__1::char_traits<char> >::overflow(int)
1112.0ms   22.7%    2,0                      fwrite
1127.0ms   23.0%    0,0        fwrite

clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1411978373, 114560081}) = 0
open("test", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
writev(3, [{NULL, 0}, {""..., 1073741824}], 2) = 1073741824
close(3)                                = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1411978386, 376353883}) = 0
write(1, "fstream write 13261.8 msn", 25fstream write 13261.8 ms) = 25

clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1411978386, 930326134}) = 0
open("test", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC, 0666) = 3
write(3, ""..., 1073741824) = 1073741824
clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, {1411978388, 584197782}) = 0
write(1, "FILE* write 1653.87 msn", 23FILE* write 1653.87 ms) = 23

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <functional>
#include <chrono>

void measure(const std::string& test, std::function<void()> function)
{
    auto start_time = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();

    function();

    auto duration = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::nanoseconds>(std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now() - start_time);
    std::cout<<test<<" "<<static_cast<double>(duration.count()) * 0.000001<<" ms"<<std::endl;
}

#define BUFFER_SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 1024)


int main()
{
    auto buffer = new char[BUFFER_SIZE];
    memset(buffer, 0, BUFFER_SIZE);

    measure("writev", [buffer]()
    {
        int fd = open("test", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY);
        struct iovec vec[] =
        {
            { NULL, 0 },
            { (void *)buffer, BUFFER_SIZE }
        };
        writev(fd, vec, sizeof(vec)/sizeof(vec[0]));
        close(fd);
    });

    measure("write", [buffer]()
    {
        int fd = open("test", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY);
        write(fd, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
        close(fd);
    });
}

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/uio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <functional>
#include <chrono>

void measure(const std::string& test, std::function<void()> function)
{
    auto start_time = std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now();

    function();

    auto duration = std::chrono::duration_cast<std::chrono::nanoseconds>(std::chrono::high_resolution_clock::now() - start_time);
    std::cout<<test<<" "<<static_cast<double>(duration.count()) * 0.000001<<" ms"<<std::endl;
}

#define BUFFER_SIZE (1024 * 1024 * 1024)


int main()
{
    auto buffer = new char[BUFFER_SIZE];
    memset(buffer, 0, BUFFER_SIZE);

    measure("writev", [buffer]()
    {
        int fd = open("test", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY, 0660);
        struct iovec vec[] =
        {
            { NULL, 0 },
            { (void *)buffer, BUFFER_SIZE }
        };
        writev(fd, vec, sizeof(vec)/sizeof(vec[0]));
        close(fd);
    });

    measure("write", [buffer]()
    {
        int fd = open("test", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY, 0660);
        write(fd, buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
        close(fd);
    });
}

measure("fstream write (new)", [buffer]()
{
    std::ofstream* stream = new std::ofstream("test", std::ios::binary);
    stream->write(buffer, BUFFER_SIZE);
    // Intentionally no delete.
});

const int MySize = 1024*1024;
char MrBuf[MySize];
stream.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(MrBuf, MySize);

const int MySize = 1024*1024;
if (!setvbuf ( file , NULL , _IOFBF , MySize ))
    DieInDisgrace();

const size_t bufsize = 256*1024;
char buf[bufsize];
mystream.rdbuf()->pubsetbuf(buf, bufsize);